Mr Rodriguez, a permanent resident of the US who lives in Michoacan, Mexico, said he visits his family in California about twice a year.

What happened?

Mr Rodriguez was walking to a nearby park when the attack occurred.

„I just passed her and she pushed me and she hit me until she was done,” he said.

Misbel Borjas, a witness who captured the incident on her phone, told CNN the woman attacked the elderly man with her hands and then a brick or slab of concrete, shouting at him to „go back to your country, go back to Mexico”.